So here's the short of it, 
Liga's part of the way home. 


And here's the long.

We got a text last night about 11:00 - the group was at the airport Early morning they would be leaving for the US of A.  Then at a little after 10:00 this morning, I got a call saying that her flight from New York to Charlotte had been cancelled. I never got an explanation - I think that maybe the storm coming through tonight was the problem - on top of the damage from Sandy earlier on.  I was on my way into a meeting and didn't have time to do anything - so I called Alan and he got to work on it right away.

By the time my meeting was over he had been able to book another flight -- but not until tomorrow!  It would be another few hours before she would land and find out.  In the meantime, there was not a hotel to be had near JFK.  So he got in touch with nephew and family Keith & Ellen (and Katie and Jack) -- of course they invited Liga to stay with them.

When she landed at a little after 3:00 she knew before she got off the plane that her flight was cancelled.  Her phone would text but she didn't have enough signal to support a voice call.  She was so tired.  Exhausted, she said, and was just frazzled about not getting home tonight.  Her Dad talked her through it all though, and she took a cab to Brooklyn and is safe and sound with the Pearlmans tonight.  Thank goodness for family to take her in! Her last post said that she was so exhausted she was almost delusional!

Tomorrow she'll have her last legs of the journey and will be back home by early evening.  I know she'll be eager to be home in her own bed and her own apartment.  And maybe she'll be a little more rested.

We are so eager to see her.  and hoping that this little blip in the end of her trip will end up just being one of those funny stories as time goes along.